Post-Potter Depression

This holiday I've been home for 3 weeks, and this means sleeping in my old room, which means being surrounded by my old Harry Potter book collection. Every time I've had trouble sleeping I've ended up picking up one of them and flicking through to have a read of my favourite bits, and it's really made me realise how much I BLOODY LOVE HARRY POTTER! I love Harry Potter SO MUCH that it's actually quite scary. And not just the books either- everything related to them! I know some people hate the films, and admittedly some of the acting is quite bad and some of it too cheesey and they've cut out some good bits (I personally dislike the fact that there isn't a Peeves.) But I like them all the same, and last night I ended up rushing out at 8:45pm to get the Half Blood Prince DVD from Sainsbury's before it closed, because I was seized by an unbelievable urge to watch it. And while I was watching I thought 'Oh dear, very soon I won't have anything Harry Potter-related to look forward to, because the last two films will be out before I know it and what am I going to do then?' So I had a bit of a brainstorm and root around the internet for things to comfort people with Post-Potter Upset. Here are some suggestions, some of which I personally plan to indulge in:

 -Read: Harry Potter Fan Fiction

 It's highly, highly dorky. And some of it is quite weird and not very good, but some of it is okay. If you read the ones that have won prizes or are highly recommended they tend to be quite readable. 

-Listen to: Wizard Rock! (Or Wrock for short.)

Also massively dorky, but hilarious. This is more well-known in America than it is here. I generally don't like novelty bands. Tenacious D, Flight of the Concords and Richard Cheese all really annoy me, mostly because you'll be sitting happily at a party chatting away and then someone will put something on by one of the above and everyone will pause and then start singing along and chuckling to themselves in that weird way that people chuckle when something isn't funny anymore because they've actually heard the song a lot of times, and the jokes are only funny the first time you hear them (if they are indeed funny at all which is rare), but they still feel the need to chuckle to show that they know the band and are clever enough to grasp the humour. And then the rest of the party is ruined because people just keep quoting the song or even worse insisting that the whole ALBUM is put on and then you'll have to sit through another half hour of it and won't be able to have a decent conversation for the rest of the night. Anyway, I'm putting Holden away now. Back to Wizard Rock. Like I said, I don't normally like novelty bands, but some of these are just charming and lovely, and genuinely funny and catchy. And the lyrics are so dreadful, and the people mostly can't sing (apart from Ministry of Magic who seem to be using Autotune or similar, I can't tell), but it's just nice. And I love the lazy rhymes that appear when people use words like 'Weasley' and 'Scar'. 

-Visit: Universal Studios

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens in June. And I am INCREDIBLY upset that I won't be going because it is so expensive to go on holiday to Orlando in Florida. I am going to comfort myself by pedantically complaining that Ollivander's is in Hogsmeade. Fools.

-Get: This App

I don't have an iPhone, or know anyone who has an iPhone, but if I did I would definitely be using my iPhone to duel them on their iPhone with this right now instead of typing. (Expelliarmus!)

Or, if you're still upset about Harry Potter ending you could always get into Twilight. It's nowhere near as good, but the books certainly suck you in and it fills the HP hole, albeit very temporarily and inadequately. Plus Cedric is in the films.

I personally am now going to watch the extra features on the Half Blood Prince DVD. Here's hoping they cheer me up a bit.